Daily News Collage — August 5, 2026

• News date: 2026-08-05
• Timestamp shown: 08/05/2026 11:59 PM
• Final image engine: built-in gpt-image (recovered from session transcript)
• Saved image: My-Library/Images/News-Images/Daily-News-Collage/Images/August_2026/Daily-News-Collage_8-5-26.png
• Output validation: genuine 3,100,602-byte RGB PNG; exactly 1024×1536; visually inspected.

Selected stories and sources

1. Temporary Protected Status officially ended for about 350,000 Haitians in the United States. Source: Associated Press
2. The United States and Iran moved closer to an agreement concerning the Strait of Hormuz. Source: Associated Press
3. U.S. stocks finished mixed while remaining close to record levels. Source: Associated Press
4. President Trump promoted his economic agenda during a Las Vegas casino speech. Source: Associated Press
5. Brazil criticized the U.S. decision to revoke its ambassador's visa. Source: Associated Press
6. The Michigan U.S. Senate race drew sharper national attention following presidential attacks on the Democratic nominee. Source: Associated Press

Generation and delivery

• Built-in generation produced two inline renders after RUN_START 1786023006, but neither appeared under the required post-start ig_*.png cache pattern.
• Recovery command: python3 "/workspace/AI-Automation-Library/script/categories/shared/codex_extract_images.py" "/home/ubuntu/.codex/sessions/2026/08/06/rollout-2026-08-06T13-30-07-019fd744-5428-7c12-b2b6-cfa873c42f66.jsonl" --out script/logs/daily-ai-news-collage/extracted_8-5-26
• The last extracted render was selected and verified; no Gemini fallback was used.
• Visual review: all six panels and required captions are present and readable; the exact timestamp is present; no recognizable real-person likeness appears. Minor supplemental prop text (WORK AUTHORIZATION, EXPIRED, and REVOKED) remains despite the prompt's no-extra-text instruction.
• Commit/push result: initial artifact commit d6c28c32 pushed successfully to origin/mike_desktop before email delivery.
• AgentMail email result: attachment sent successfully to mikeschecht@gmail.com; status sent, message ID <0100019fd74c3968-b396acc9-bada-42c7-851d-589f227e70e7-000000@email.amazonses.com>, thread ID 9c69c5ed-30b1-40d9-a9be-dabc40838b25. Notification-only fallback was not needed.
• Issues: built-in persistence issue #28881 required transcript recovery; minor supplemental prop text noted above.